by Ciara O'Sullivan | Jun 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Dental Council has announced (May 16th) that dentists can now resume provision of treatments other than emergency treatments subject to compliance with new safeguards. The Minister for Health has announced that dental practices can open from 18 May subject to...
by Ciara O'Sullivan | Sep 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
The Dental Health Foundation supports and endorses a paper on e-cigarettes (click here). This is a newly published joint position statement from the Irish Cancer Society and Irish Heart Foundation on e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products (HTP). The paper reviews...
by Ciara O'Sullivan | Sep 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
State support for dental treatment, through PRSI and medical card schemes, has fallen from a high of almost €150 million in 2009 to less than €75 million last year. Data also shows, from 2009 to 2015, the number of extractions of teeth among medical card patients...
by Ciara O'Sullivan | Mar 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
The Irish Dental Association has urged people to prioritise their oral health and not to ignore dental pain, gum infection or trauma. The call follows the death of 26 year old Vadim Kondratyuk Anatoliyevich, a father of two from California, who passed away after a...
by Ciara O'Sullivan | Oct 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
A leading expert in dental trauma has called on parents to make sure that their children wear properly fitting mouth guards when playing contact sports. Dr Anne O’Connell, Consultant In Paediatric Dentistry and Director of the Trauma Clinic at Dublin Dental University...
by Ciara O'Sullivan | Jun 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
Dental amalgam has been used on patients for over 150 years. All available world-wide research indicates that amalgam is not harmful to health. This view is endorsed by the International Dental Federation, the International Association for Dental Research, the US...
